St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

most niche of the temple of dramatic fame.
| Ii lis matter of sincere regret to the play
| going public that after this season MoDJEsKA
will be seen on the stage no more. She has
expressed her determination to retire from
the stage permanently at the close of the
| present season. Those who know this ex-
| cellent lady best know that she is woman of
| her word, and when she says she intends to
retire from the profession she means it. She
| is not given to the advertising dodges which
characterize some of her iliustrious con-
| tempOraries.
MoDJEsKA's engagement at the Grand will
commence next Thursday evening in the
| performance of Measure for Measure"
The repertoire for the remainder of the en-
| gagement will be Friday night, 'Cymbeline;"
| Saturday matinee, Donna DIANA and Satur
day night, "As You Like IT. The last
named play is the only one in which Mop.
JEsKA has been seen in this city. Her Donna
Diana" has been adapted from the Spanish,
and is one of those artificial comedies of love
and intrigue in which the Spanish drama
| abounds.
Miss MATHER's curtain fall in Romeo and
Juliet is not only unique in its startling eff
fect but to one sitting in front has all the ap-
pearance of hazardous stage feat. 1t seems
impossible that she should pitch head
long down those steps and roll over and
| over without being hurt. "Oh, no, it is not
bit dangerous" said Miss MATHER when
spoken to about it. 81 presume it looks so
| from the front The fall is made with mathe-
matical precision. / measure it before make
1t. So know exactly where 1 am going to
| light. The only danger is that the curtain
| may break some time while am clinging to it,
SO lalWays give my personal attention to its
| hanging. l did not invent this fall for
| stage effect. 1t suggested itself to me from
| reading the lines of the play That is the
| last spot from which Juliet saw Romeo when
taking his final leave of her, and it occurred
to me that it would be natural that she should
be standing there when sinking into the un-
consciousness produced by the potion. am
not half as liable to get hurt in this fall as
am in the death fall in the last act''
| ~
Persons who saw Miss MATHER Thursday
night in Leah did not suspect the discom-
fort the young lady was subjected to by her
leading man in the closing scene of the sec
ond act when Rudolph casts off the Jewess
maiden. Mr.. PAULDING has the unfortunate
faculty of becoming SO absorbed in his part
sometimes as to forget his own identity, and
thus gives realism to the performance that
was not intended by the play writer, and GER
ta1nly not desired by the rest of the cast In
this particular instance he snatched
Miss MATTER baldheaded, so to speak
Before casting her off from him
with mimicry of violence, as the
play suggests, he had unwittingly entwined
the fingers of one hand in her wig, and
throwing her from him with great violence,
with the other hand he separated Miss
MATHER from her headgear. AS these stage
wigs are fastened on with many pins of
great length and exceeding pointedness one
can easily imagine the scarifed condition of
Miss MATHER's head by the time they had
ploughed through the feshy covering of the
Uranium.
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This is not Mr.. PAULDNG's first exhibition
OF forgetfulness. On one occasion in fenc-
ing scene he thrust his antagonist through
the body, and at another time ripped an ugly
cash in Tybalts cheek. Mr.. LEvIcK carries
in the palm of his hand the scar of dagger
cut inflicted through Mr. PAULDINGs over
wrought stage realism. If Mr.. PAULDING
could manage to give less realism to his act
ing, and little more attention to his rhetoric
1t would be an improvement to his dramatic
work. He is good, very good, but there is a
| defect of mOdulation in the tone of his voice
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After her eXhauSting performance in
knocking Nashville parson out of time, the
charming EMMA ABBOTT is coming to St
| Paul to brace up. Miss ABBOTT knows where
| to find her friends She will be here next
week with her recognized opera company.
| and, according to her own statement, pro-
| poses to make this red-letter season in the
history of her operate career. She spent the
summer in Europe preparing for this sea-
sons work, and as a sequence announces
that her company individually and in point
OF ensemble is well nigh perfect, and her
productions of opera more elaborate than
usual, while the eostuming is a sight to see.
Her repertoire while here will include the
new opera, 'Ruy Bias or The Queen and the
Lackey," ''The Carnival of Venice" s'Bo-
hemian Cir" Chimes of Normandy" 81
| Trovatore,'' "The Good Little Devil'' and
''M1kado." In addition to herself Miss AB-
BoTT's company cast includes LIZZIE AMMAN
DALE, FRICkE, MIcHELENA, BRoDERIcK,
MoNTEGRIFFo, PRUETTE, ALLEN, BEAUMONT
and the new prima donna, Mile. HELENE
BERTRAM.
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Oh, no. The individual who wants the
GLOBE to roast the opera house management
because they wouldn't give him a seat in the
dress circle on fifty-cent ticket has lost his
bearings. There is no law in this country
compelling people to go to the theaters. The
man who buys a fifty-cent show ticket and
isn't willing to sit in a fifty-cent seat has his
| remedy by staying away from the theater
The GLOBE is always ready to roast every
thing that deserves roasting. But it is not
willing to undertake to redress the imaginary
grievance of every crank who comes along.
~
Standing by the box Office of theater and
| watching the people who come there to buy
tickets, one sees many varying phases of
| human nature. The other day quartette of
fashionably dressed ladies appeared at the
| box Office of the Grand and demanded to see
the diagram showing the arrangement of
seats for the ''Romeo and Juliet performance
that night. They took it and studied it dill
gently. One preferred to sit on the right
| hand side of the house, another wanted a
| seat on the left, the third one thought the
center was preferable, while the fourth
| one imagined that perch in the balcony
would be just the thing, but they all
agreed in preferring a location where they
| could have the best view of the balcony scene.
| The ticket seller kindly explained to them
from what point the best view of the balcony
scene could be had. That settled it and the
tickets were bought. Nearly an honr after
wards one of the ladies rushed up to the box
office, quite out of breath. ''After we got
home," she commenced, I'VE got to talking
the matter over and we remembered that we
saw on the diagram some vacant seats on the
other side of the house in the front row of
the parquette circle, and here YOU have per-
| Al,